Jörn Hees <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 24 Jul 2013, at 17:20, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Goes and looks...
>>
>> OK, the tracking branches for these are created under refs/hg/*
>> using the same name.
>> ...
>> A refname shouldn't begin or end with a dot, because the range
>> ... ellided a correct description of the reason behind rule, which is
>> ... irrelevant to the topic
>
> I think there is a slight misunderstanding here:
>
> .git/hg/<remote_name> will be the actual directory for a hg::
> remote, which will then use mercurial internal magic to refer to
> the shared repo .git/hg/.shared in case the remote is not
> somewhere on the local filesystem, otherwise that path is used.
Yes, it is not a "slight" but a "huge" misunderstanding.
I saw the caller of get_repo(url, alias) doing a
'refs/hg/%s' % alias
immediately after the call, and somehow assumed that the proposal
would result in stuffing .shared to the "alias", which is not the
case. The hg/$name directories may be used to store Hg repositories
for 'alias' that is passed by the caller, but hg/.shared thing you
guys were discussing is internal to get_repo() implementation and
there won't be refs/hg/.shared created because of this change.
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